List of left-wing organizations in the USA: Meaning (information, definition, explanation, facts)

A list of left-wing organizations (organizations may be listed under multiple applicable categories):

• Electronic Policy Network
• Center for Community Change
• Center for Third World Organizing

Consumer

• Center for Science in the Public Interest (food/nutrition)
• Consumers Union
• Public Citizen
• Public Interest Research Groups
• Center for Auto Safety
• Commercial Alert
• Center for Media and Democracy (PR watch)
• Consumer Federation of America
• Consumer Project on Technology

Sexual

• National Coalition for Sexual Freedom

Reproductive

• Planned Parenthood
• National Abortion Rights Action League (NARAL)
• Voters for Choice

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Alliance for Justice
• National Lawyers Guild
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• First Amendment Center
• Southern Poverty Law Center
• American Constitution Society
• Earthjustice (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights
• Center for Constitutional Rights

• Democracy for America
• MoveOn.org
• New Democrat Network
  • Progressive Policy Institute
• Center for Voting and Democracy
• League of Conservation Voters
• America Coming Together (get out the vote)
• Music for America
• Center for American Progress
• TrueMajority
• Verified Voting (electronic voting)
• 21st Century Democrats

• Common Cause
• Fund for Constitutional Government
• Government Accountability Project
• Project on Government Oversight

• Institute for Policy Studies
• New America Foundation
• Rockridge Institute (framing)

• EMILY's List (fundraising for women)
• ActBlue (ActBlue.com) (fundraising)
• Media Fund
• National Committee for an Effective Congress
• Progressive Majority
• Voters for Choice

• League of Pissed Off Voters
• Rock the Vote

Campaign finance

• Center for Public Integrity
• Center for Responsive Politics (campaign finance)
• Public Campaign (campaign finance)

Political parties

• Democratic Party
• Green Party

• Rainforest Action Network
• World Wildlife Fund
• Environmental Defense Fund
• Natural Resources Defense Council
• Sierra Club
• Greenpeace
• League of Conservation Voters
• Common Assets
• American Forests
• American Rivers
• BioDemocracy Campaign
• Campaign to Label Genetically Engineered Food
• Citizen's Coal Council
• Clean Air Trust
• Clean Water Action
• Critical Mass Energy Project
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Earth Island Institute
• Earthjustice (formerly Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund)
• Environmental Working Group
• Friends of the Earth
• Headwaters Forests
• Heritage Forests
• Institute for Local Self-Reliance
• National Environmental Trust
• National Parks Conservation Association
• Native Forest Council
• Pesticide Action Network North America
• Project Underground
• Silicon Valley Toxics Campaign
• Wilderness Society

• AFL-CIO
• SEIU
• Jobs with Justice

• Air America Radio
• Common Dreams
• In These Times
• Pacifica Radio
  • Democracy Now!
• Z Magazine

• Citizens for Independent Public Broadcasting
• Institute for Public Accuracy
• Media Alliance
• People for Better TV
• Center for Creative Voices in Media

Media monitoring

• Center for Media and Democracy
  • PR Watch
  • Disinfopedia
• Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting
• Media Matters for America

• American Civil Liberties Union
• Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now

Animals

• Animal Welfare Institute
• People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals
• Humane Society

Blacks

• National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Children

• Children's Defense Fund

Gay/lesbian

• Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation
• Human Rights Campaign
• National Gay and Lesbian Task Force
• Parents, Families & Friends of Lesbians and Gays

Human rights

• Amnesty International
• International Committee of the Red Cross
• Human Rights Watch
• Lawyers Committee for Human Rights

Women

• National Organization of Women
• EMILY's List (fundraising for women)
• Feminist Majority Foundation
• MADRE
• Women's Action for New Directions 
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom
• Women Leaders Online

• Center for Democracy and Technology
• Electronic Frontier Foundation
• League for Programming Freedom
• Free Software Foundation
• Public Patent Foundation
• Public Knowledge
• Electronic Privacy Information Center
• Creative Commons
• Chilling Effects
• Computer Professionals for Social Responsibility
• Verified Voting (electronic voting)
• IP Justice
• Consumer Project on Technology
• International Center for Technology Assessment

• Internet Archive
• Libraries for the Future

• Center to Prevent Handgun Violence
• Handgun Control, Inc.
• Violence Policy Center
• Women's Action for New Directions 

• Center for Economic and Policy Research
• Center on Budget & Policy Priorities
• Economic Policy Institute
• Citizens for Tax Justice
• Preamble Center
• United for a Fair Economy

• Peace Action
• Peaceful Tomorrow (nonviolent response to terrorism)
• Veterans for Peace
• Women's International League for Peace and Freedom

• Abolition 2000 (nuclear testing)
• Coalition to Reduce Nuclear Dangers
• Nuclear Information and Resource Service
• Center for Defense Information
• Center for International Policy
• Federation of American Scientists
• School of the Americas Watch
• Union of Concerned Scientists

• Families USA (health care)
• Physicians for a National Health Program (PNHP)
• Bread for the World (hunger)
• Food First!
• Hunger Project
• Habitat for Humanity (homeless)
• National Coalition for the Homeless

• National Education Association (teachers)
• Growing Without Schooling
• Sudbury school
• Educators for Social Responsibility

• Americans For Democratic Action
• People for the American Way (judicial nominees?)

• Drug Policy Alliance

• American Friends Service Committee (Quaker)
• Americans United for Separation of Church and State
• American Atheists
• American Humanist Association
• Interfaith Alliance

• 20/20 Vision (peace, environment, democracy)
• 2030 Center (economic future)
• Alliance for Democracy
• Business for Social Responsibility
• Campaign for America's Future
• Center for Health, Environment and Justice
• Co-op America
• Council for a Livable World
  • Conventional Arms Transfer Project
• Council for Responsible Genetics
• Dads and Daughters
• Death Penalty Information Center
• Demos!
• Doctors Without Borders
• Earth Charter USA
• Earth Day Network 2000
• East Timor Action Network
• Fellowship of Reconciliation
• Global Exchange
• Global Green USA
• INFACT
• Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy
• Jubilee 2000/USA (debt freedom)
• Latin America Working Group
• Mobilization for Global Justice (anti-World Bank)
• National Breast Cancer Coalition
• National Priorities Project
• New Century Alliance for Social Security
• Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
• Physicians for Social Responsibility
• Political Research Associates (research the right)
• Program on Corporations, Law and Democracy
• Redefining Progress
• Taxpayers for Common Sense
• Century Foundation
• Wellstone Action
• Worldwatch Institute